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Friday, May 10, 2013

Sirens by Janet Fox blog tour: guest post & giveaway

I love Janet Fox's books, so I am so excited to be hosting a guest post
from her today for the SIRENS IN THE TIME OF GATSBY blog tour, hosted by
Mod Podge Blog Tours.
In addition to Janet's guest post about women's fashion in the 1920s (a
great topic!), there is also an awesome contest, and be sure to watch
the book trailer!

Kicking Up Their Heels: The Women’s Fashion
Revolution of the 1920s

Flappers were defined
in part by how they looked. When in SIRENS Jo meets her cousin Melody, she see
the perfect flapper; and when Jo borrows her cousin’s clothes she worries she’s
turning into a flapper. But, golly, it was a great look! And it sure beat
wearing those horrific corsets.

In an earlier blog post I talked about some of the reasons
fashion changed so radically in the years from 1900 to 1925. The war, the
suffrage movement, the feminist movement, women in the work force, even cinema,
the automobile and advertising – these elements came together to encourage more
practical, less restrictive women’s clothing (corsets – gone!)

But what happened in the early 1920s pushed the clothing
evolution into revolution. And the greatest proponent and inventor of the new
fashion was Coco Chanel.

Chanel was thin, athletic – she was a great horsewoman – and
attractive, and she personally favored less restrictive clothing, adopting
men’s clothing and the comfortable styles worn by sailors (like boatneck
sweaters and espadrilles.) It was her personal taste that women found
attractive, as Chanel used knits and flannels rather than silks and taffetas,
and she dispensed with frills and ruffles in favor of simple lines that allowed
freedom of movement. To make up for the lack of fabric adornment, Chanel
introduced beadwork and patterned cloth. It was Chanel’s slim, straight
silhouette that became the fashion almost overnight.

Young women in America particularly took to Chanel’s chic
new look. Dresses were tubular, with no waist

or a dropped waist, and those
huge, overdone hats were reduced to the close-fitting cloche. Long hair went
out of style – too fussy, too much work – to be replaced by the short, loosely
styled bob. Hemlines in about 1919 were mid-calf, but by 1925 had climbed well above
the knee. While frills were gone, they were replaced by the “Oriental” look
that featured beading on the dresses, and jewelry of beads, bangles, and long strands
of pearls.

Because these slender dress styles sporting bare arms and
lots of leg look best on young figures, those who dressed in Chanel style were
mostly young and thin. And the young women of the 1920s were already pushing
against their elders’ formal restraints across society. When women entered the
work force during The Great War, they didn’t want to return to passive domestic
duties. They needed comfortable clothes, and they needed them ready to wear.

That was the other part of this revolution in fashion: the
shift away from elaborate hand-sewn costumes made from delicate fabrics that
required lots of care to practical fabrics sewn into

practical garments that
could be purchased – by an ordinary working girl – off the rack. Technology
combined with practicality: a factory could produce many more dresses using far
less fabric with the new styles. And a girl could walk into a shop with her
week’s wages and walk out with the latest flapper style, and have money left
over for entertainment.

Which was a huge part of the 1920s culture. Dancing,
drinking, and dating – every self-respecting flapper wanted to be out all night
taking in the “scene” and being “seen.” More about that in an upcoming post.

When Jo Winter’s parents
send her off to live with her rich cousin on the glittering island of
Manhattan, it’s to find a husband and forget about her brother Teddy’s
death. But all that glitters is not gold..

Caught up in the
swirl of her cousin’s bobbed-hair set—and the men that court them— Jo
soon realizes that the talk of marriage never stops, and behind the
seemingly boundless gains are illicit business endeavors, gangsters, and
their molls. Jo would much rather spend time the handsome but quiet
Charles, a waiter at the Algonquin Hotel, than drape herself over a
bootlegger. But when she befriends a moll to one of the most powerful
men in town, Jo begins to uncover secrets—secrets that threaten an
empire and could secure Jo’s freedom from her family.

Can her newfound power buy her love? Or will it to ruin Jo, and everyone around her?

About Janet Fox:Janet Fox is the author of award-winning books for children and young
adults. FAITHFUL (Speak/Penguin Young Readers 2010), set in Yellowstone
National Park in 1904, is a YALSA Best Fiction for YA nominee and an
Amelia Bloomer List pick, 2011. FORGIVEN (Speak 2011), set in 1906 San
Francisco during the great earthquake, is a Junior Library Guild
selection 2011, and a 2012 WILLA Literary Awards Finalist. Her most
recent novel, SIRENS (Speak 2012) is set in 1925 New York. Janet has
numerous MG and YA projects underway. She is a former high school
English teacher and received her MFA in Writing for Children and Young
Adults in 2010 (Vermont College of Fine Arts). Janet lives in Bozeman,
Montana.You can learn more about Janet and her books at her website.Book Trailer for SIRENS:

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